One of the most pleasant surprises the week leading up to New Year's 2001 was when I got a surprise visitor. I was in the tub, but fully dressed. I wa...s testing myself, shrouding my body with as much repelling force as I could muster, and seeing if I could immerse myself in liquid without getting wet when the doorbell rang. To my credit, the wall of water around me barely wavered as I climbed out of the tub. I popped the drain plug with telekinesis and answered the door."Viktoriya?" I gasped as. I don't think their intentions are honorable."You're a darling. I have to show you something only once and you do get it done. Sometimes you're better than me. You're my little genius." I'm not little," Junior complained."You can be seven feet tall but you'll always be my little son." Mom, you're not thinking what I think you're thinking?" Me thinks you think too much," she laughed."You're going to ship, aren't you?" Yes I am," she said seriously. "I believe that I should try and talk some. Why not a wider audience? Well from our standpoint there were three reasons. One, the group of ships headed for Earth orbit never got far enough past the sun for you to see, except by satellites in the highest orbits. Second, our engagement with the warships was near Mars, which is currently on the other side of the sun. The third reason is that the whole incident lasted less than 9 hours. A couple of astronauts on the ISS did see indications of our engagement, but they didn’t have time to. ” She took a sip and stared into the rising steam.“How do the other women of the colony feel about my presence?” I inquired.“Sheila thinks you are, as shes says, ‘interesting.’ Most of my sisters agree. You’re kinda a grandfather figure,” Seraina blew on her cup to cool it before taking another swallow.“I think you’re kinda sexy for an old guy,” Seraina said with a wink.If I wanted to know how Sheila’s mind worked, I needed to take a page out of the Dos Equis beer advertising campaign and.